Faculty Instructional Technology Resources

Saving files to Drives at the School of Nursing

You have a number of choices of places to store your files at the School
of Nursing. Note: Most of the following options are available to faculty
and staff only and do not apply to the computer labs.
Students should save files to a USB drive (available from the School of Nursing's
Office of Student Affairs) or to their MFile space.

Which drive should I use?

For faculty and staff, use
your J:\ drive, not your C:\ drive (the hard drive of your computer)
for day-to-day saving of files that you don’t need to share.

Keep in mind that it is much more likely that your C:\ drive
is going to crash without a backup than that the J:\ drive
is going to crash.

If you save to the J:\ drive, you also have access to all
your files from any computer in the School.

The J:\ drive is backed up daily; you can also "undelete" files you have accidentally erased.

If you need to have more than one person working on the file (e.g., updating the same spreadsheet, editing the same paper), save it to the O:\ drive or another SoN shared drive .

Save web pages to your MFile space.

Use CTools if you need to share files with people outside U-M.

If you are a student, your best bet is a USB drive, followed by your MFile space.

Drive

Description

Accessible by…

Accessible from…

Notes

C:\My Documents

The hard drive of the computer in front
of you.

You only

Your usual computer. If you log into another
computer, you will have a folder called “My Documents,” but
it won’t have any documents in it from your normal computer.

Each person who logs into this computer
has a folder called “My Documents” that only she can get
to.

J:\

Your folder on the School of Nursing server

You only, except for your drop box.

Any computer that you log into within
the School of Nursing (except the computer labs)

If you normally work at more than one
computer, or if you need to move files between computers, store them
in the J drive.

J:\dropbox

A folder within your J drive where others
can store materials.

You can read and write everything in this
folder; others can “send” you files by saving them to your
dropbox.

Any computer that you log into within
the School of Nursing (except the computer labs)

A good alternative to e-mail large files
to each other.

O:\

Shared file space on School of Nursing
server

Everyone in your workgroup (OAA, OBFA,
etc.)

Any computer that you log into within
the School of Nursing (except the computer labs)

Best place for files that are regularly
used and changed by multiple people in your office.

MFile space

Institutional File Space; 1 GB of space
on central U-M servers

You can read and write files; you can also
put files in a Public folder that others can read, but not modify.